Most Aussies have heard about stinger season in north Queensland. But not everyone survives the full-body experience of encountering an Irukandji jellyfish.
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“People who are stung by an Irukandji often say that there is a sense of impending doom,” Dan Bateman, senior public affairs officer at the Cairns base hospital, sort of questions me 48 hours after the “incident”.
Sense of impending doom? No!
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